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I've been playing games since my parents got us an Atari 2600, and my dad brought a Commodore 64 home from a coworker who was getting rid of it. Games are one of my biggest joys (and of my kids too). And seeing these big corporations not respecting this medium like many of us do, it infuriates me.

Hi-Fi Rush sold horribly on PS. Game pass or no Game Pass, South of Midnight is not covering their development. It's just not the kind of game people are willing to spend money on or subscribe to GP for.

The writing is on the wall: "taxes, taxes, taxes"

Absolutely. You need the quirky single player games way more than you need half a dozen shooters or "man with large sword swings large sword at boss" games. I guess the logic is you can just buy those outside, but it takes time to shut things down and then scout for second parties to take over.

Fact of the matter is, factory line logic works if you're making a bag of chips ahoy or a model of car, but it completely fails when applied to any kind of creative or artistic process, like video game making. Factory line logic is good at making copies, not creations.

The second Spencer and co. bought Activision, all previously announced acquisitions didn't make any sense anymore and it's been a continuous, steady bleed of studio closures and layoffs in the thousands ever since then. Sadly, this is just business as usual for MS at this point.

Are you really complaining about it being $40? That's also the same price as it is on Xbox, genius.

But Compulsion games wasn't that good

Especially since they've made a system where a hit means less for them financially than it does for anyone else